Job Information
State of Tennessee Job Information
Opening Date/Time |
03/04/2025 12:00AM Central Time |
Closing Date/Time |
03/17/2025 11:59PM Central Time |
Salary (Monthly) |
$3,197.00 - $4,001.00 |
Salary (Annually) |
$38,364.00 - $48,012.00 |
Job Type |
Full-Time |
City, State Location |
Nashville, TN |
Department |
Revenue |
LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, ADMINISTRATION DIVISION, DAVIDSON COUNTY
Qualifications
Education and Experience: Education equivalent to graduation from a standard high school and five years of Revenue processing experience in the Department of Revenue for the State of Tennessee.
Substitution of Experience for Education: Clerical or customer service experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis
OR
One year of full-time experience as a Revenue Processing Tech 1, with the State of Tennessee.
Necessary Special Qualifications: None
Examination Method: Education and Experience, 100%, for Preferred Service positions.
Overview
Summary: Under general supervision, performs data entry and document control work of considerable difficulty, providing quality control for data capture and performs related work as required.
Distinguishing Features: This is the working-level class in the Revenue Processing Technician series. An employee in this class is responsible for completing processes for document review, payment review, payment cashiering, and deposit functions. This class differs from the Revenue Processing Technician 1, in that the incumbent in the latter functions at the entry-level.
Responsibilities
Making Decisions and Solving Problems:
- Determines source of errors when actual deposits do not balance with amount entered into computer system.
- Compares deposit totals entered into deposit area software with totals in revenue processing system to ensure accuracy.
- Tracks payments and documentation in Revenue Processing computer system in response to inquiries from internal and external sources.
- Verifies information for accuracy and completeness before validating documents and/or endorsing checks.
- Corrects tax documents with deleted document location numbers so that they can be re-batched.
- Researches returns and documents by entering data from corresponding check into the Revenue Processing computer systems.
- Applies payments to taxpayer accounts accruing largest penalties unless otherwise specified.
- Matches checks rejected from electronic deposit process to corresponding tax forms to be sent to exceptions.
- Edits tax forms for entry into the Revenue Processing system.
- Reviews received tax forms or title and registration documents for completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:
- Corrects errors made on accounting records, tax forms, databases, title and registration transactions and taxpayer checks: deletes database errors from system or re-keys data.
- Provides excellent customer service to taxpayers and customers, financial institutions, and other state agencies. Answers questions and resolves issues regarding Revenue Processing policies and procedures.
- Maintains Revenue Processing accounting records: creates deposit records containing information such as deposit types and totals, type of documents, total number of documents, and receiving agency.
- May be required to perform and help lead special projects and processed within the unit and across the Processing Division.
- May be required to lead staff in recording payments into State's cashiering software system.
Processing Information:
- Reverses electronic payments made in error or duplicated at taxpayer request.
- Ensures that batches of scanned payments balance with batch totals in the State's cashiering software system.
- Creates deposits of all checks collected by Revenue Processing and other state agencies for delivery to appropriate financial institutions: verifies that checks bundled for deposit are listed on deposit slip.
- Deposits money into correct accounts for other agencies not authorized to do so.
- Keys commands into data fields so that payments can be processed and deposited correctly.
- Enters batch numbers of verified checks into software program that generates deposit statements for financial institutions.
- Balances daily deposit information against amount entered to customer accounts in the database.
- Scans checks into State's cashiering software system for electronic delivery to Treasury and Financial institutions.
- Verifies that dollar amount matches in written line and box on actual check.
- Enters deposit file names into a document for state tax accounting system.
- Credits tax payments received from walk-in taxpayers to appropriate account.
- Creates documents for taxpayers or customers who mail payments without appropriate forms.
- Places monies into suspense account until cleared to appropriate account.
- Works with taxpayers to format and enter professional privilege tax correctly into spreadsheets to ensure that the correct accounts are credited in the database.
- May be required to perform Data Specialist duties as needed: enters alphanumeric data from both hard copy and scanned images into correct numeric or alphanumeric fields.
- May be required to perform duties across the division such as process incoming mail.
- Groups tax forms into batches by type for scanning.
- Performs timely maintenance on revenue processing equipment in order to process documents and payments accurately.
- References training manual to determine proper data entry procedures for different tax forms and batch types.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:
- Contacts taxpayers via letter, telephone, or e-mail and provides needed correspondence to make corrections to ACH payments.
- Cancels transactions for walk-in taxpayers made in error.
Communicating with Persons Outside the Organization:
- Answers questions from financial institutions regarding deposits made to Revenue Processing accounts.
- Writes letters, emails, or places phone calls to taxpayers requesting additional information to process documents and checks.
Documenting/Recording Information:
- Prepares checks for pick-up by financial institution courier.
- Records all cash collected from taxpayers who pay in person and any other cash that comes into Revenue Processing.
- Compiles and maintains electronic data statistics on a daily/monthly/annual basis.
- Enters totals of deposits, deposit names, and deposit slips into spreadsheets for use internally and by financial institutions.
- Enters all deposits including cash, check, lockbox, and electronic funds into spreadsheets.
- Generates spreadsheets of deposit information to be entered into Revenue Processing computer system.
- Files tax forms for storage and document retention.
Competencies (KSA's)
Competencies:
- Customer Focus
- Technical Learning
- Drive for Results
- Perseverance
- Ethics and Values
- Integrity and Trust
- Decision Quality
- Self-Development
- Dealing with Ambiguity
- Directing Others
Knowledge:
- Clerical procedures as it relates to managing files and records and the use of word processing systems
- Customer service principles and processes
Skills:
- Active learning and using new information for problem-solving and decision-making
- Active listening and giving full attention to points being made
- Critical thinking and using logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of approaches to problems
- Using math to solve problems
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience
- Teaching others how to do something
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
- Determining the causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Time Management
Abilities:
- Applying general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
- Combining pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions
- Arranging things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules
- Communicating information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
- Multi-tasking
- Reading and understanding information and ideas in writing so others will understand
- Communicating information and ideas in writing so others will understand
Tools & Equipment
1. Computer
2. Telephone
3. Fax Machine
4. Printer
5. Copier
6. Low-speed scanner
7. Credit/Debit machine
8. Check scanner
TN Driver Standards
State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:
- A valid driver's license
- For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.
Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.
**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.